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Turkmenbashi port capacity and the harsh reality

Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan (Ports Europe) November 21, 2024 – Turkmenistan’s Turkmenbashi (Turkmanbashi) port, a $1.5 billion (€1.32 billion)...

ABB, Dura Vermeer, GMB to expand APM Terminals Maasvlakte II

Rotterdam, The Netherlands (Ports Europe) November 19, 2024 – CareGo, a consortium comprising technology leader ABB and Dutch construction companies Dura...

Captagon pills seized in Port of Ambarli, Turkey

Ambarli, Turkey (Ports Europe) November 18, 2024 – Turkish Customs authorities have seized over 1.3 million Captagon pills and 26,520 mixer parts in...

Putin’s aid visits drone-hit Kaspiysk and Makhachkala

Makhachkala, Russia (Ports Europe) November 15, 2024 – Nine days after the devastating attack against the Russian Caspian Sea naval base of Kaspiysk, 18...

EBRD to invest €1.25 bln in Kazakhstan for Middle Corridor

Astana, Kazakhstan (Ports Europe) November 2, 2024 – The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) plans to invest in Kazakhstan 1.25...

Crete’s Port of Heraklion see cruise numbers up in Jan-Sep 2024

Heraklion, Crete, Greece (Ports Europe) November 1, 2024 – The Port of Heraklion has recorded significant growth in cruise traffic during the first nine...

Argentine SmartportLab joined Port Innovators Network

Valencia, Spain (Ports Europe) October 31, 2024 – Argentine innovation hub of the Port of Bahia Blanca SmartportLab has joined the Port Innovators...

Russia’s ports handled 4.1 mln TEUs in Jan-Sep’24

Moscow, Russia (Ports Europe) October 27 – There are two different estimates of Russian container turnover for January-September. According to the...

Portuguese government allocates funds to Azorean ports

Ponta Delgado, Azores (Ports Europe) October 21, 2024 – The Government has allocated 321 million euros to contribute to works at ports and airports in...

Konecranes acquires Peinemann subsidiaries in Rotterdam port

Rotterdam, Netherlands (Ports Europe) October 21, 2024 – Finland’s Konecranes will acquire Rotterdam-based Peinemann Port Services BV and Peinemann...

Arrests in Israel after agent exposes smuggling in Ashdod port

Ashdod, Israel (Ports Europe) September 11, 2024 – After the longest-ever operation of a covert agent (code named Jack Sparrow) of the Israel Police,...

Predictive software tool to help UK’s port of Milford Haven

Milford Haven, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) September 3, 2024 – A new predictive software tool developed, under development by Science and Technology...

Trieste Marine Terminal: TEU traffic – July 2024

Trieste, Italy (Ports Europe) September 2, 2024 –  Trieste Marine Terminal srl (TMT) handled 68,894 containers (TEU) in July 2024. This compares with...

Romania, Turkey, Netherlands, Denmark firms interested in EBRD’s Giurgiulesti port

Giurgiulesti, Moldova (Ports Europe) August 29, 2024 – The state-owned part of landlocked Moldova’s only port of Giurgiulesti on the Danube River...

Europol seizes around 70 kg of narcotics bound for Malaga

The Hague, Netherlands (Ports Europe) August 26, 2024 – Europol has cooperated with the Spanish (Policía Nacional) and Colombian Police (Policía...

KSK Grain Terminal to introduce electronic bill of lading

Novorossiysk, Russia (Ports Europe) August 15, 2024 – KSK Grain Terminal has successfully tested vehicle acceptance using the electronic bill of lading...

Webinar about port automation and remote machine control

London, United Kingdom (Ports Europe) August 13, 2024 – Nokia is organising a webinar on September 4 at 16:00 CET with expert speakers from Verizon...

MSC’s Medlog invests in multimodal terminal adjacent to Paris

Paris, France (Ports Europe) July 24, 2024 – MEDLOG, part of MSC Mediterranean Shipping, has started building a new multimodal platform in the Paris...

Medusa plans North African subsea cable

Marseille, France (Ports Europe) July 9, 2024 – The Medusa project plans an 8,700-km undersea cable linking North African countries – Morocco,...

Alexandroupolis LNG terminal to start operations in Q4 2024

Alexandroupolis, Greece (Ports Europe) July 3, 2024 – The Alexandroupolis LNG terminal built by Gastrade is scheduled to start operations in Q4 2024....

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